Heartbreak according to Will Byers
12+ hours of editing and sound mixing for the most devastating video to grace your screen…
The Mindflayer is just a metaphor… Falling in love with someone you shouldn’t can feel a bit like getting possessed by an Eldritch monster.
This is what I think Will was actually remembering in Castle Byers and in Mike's basement in S3 and what his train of thought was (his feelings for Mike just weren't canon yet, so the Duffers couldn't go quite this hard…).
Plus, a sneak peek into Mike's POV when he agrees with Will about that roller coaster feeling...
"Something is coming… something hungry for blood…" (the gay and in love with your best friend flavor of heartbreak) "it got me…" (love) "You were just swinging [that bat] by yourself…" "Where were you when I was lonesome?"
anyway I'M SICK!!!!!!!! This Frankenstein creation is like actually sick and twisted and I need to be put in jail but it's art and i'm so proud of it, I hope you enjoy/cry. I put a lot of thought into making it as devastating as possible!
some of my favorite mostly imperceptible technical details: max and lucas magically disappearing from mike & will's movie date lol, all my sound bridges/audio overlays to indicate will (and mike, at the end) reliving his memories in the context of whatever he's doing/looking at, the ominous film projector reel, stitching all the movie theater music clips together to the exact beat, the new rain matching the two diff storm intensities, the thunderclaps that I had to match to each lightning strike bc removing the OG background music also removes all the OG sound effects lmao, the added comic book page flip sounds and door noises etc, seamlessly lengthening the song by over a minute, etc ! so many details lol